Converting [Word8] to CString

15 Sep 2001

      I'm looking for a function that will convert a [Word8] byte-array to a 
CString (i.e. a C byte array) for the purposes of FFI.

     foreign import "JVMBridge"	"JVMBridge_FindClass" rawFindClass ::
      JavaVM -> CString -> IO JVMObjectRef;

     makeCString :: [Word8] -> IO CString;

It has to work correctly with _any_ list of bytes. And it has to be the 
_same_ list of bytes that comes through on the native side.

Note that we are only dealing with bytes here, this has nothing whatever 
to "characters", "text", "charsets", "Unicode", "encodings" or any of 
that nonsense.

If this really can't be done, is there another type I can use? In some 
cases, the external function may call back into Haskell.

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Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA